Pentobarbital injection used to execute Stephen Stanko, who killed two and raped his girl friend’s daughter, in South CarolinaStephen Christopher Stanko faced execution in South Carolina. He was convicted for murders and other crimes. The execution happened via let...
14 Jun, 2025, 01.50 PM IST
Louisiana Nitrogen Gas Execution: Everything you may want to knowLouisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking its first execution since 2010. Hoffman's lawyers sought to halt ...
19 Mar, 2025, 02.58 AM IST
Lethal injection, electrocution, now firing squads. Look at US execution methodsSouth Carolina is set to execute a man by firing squad, a method unused in the US for nearly 15 years. The article reviews the various exec...
03 Mar, 2025, 12.29 PM IST
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugsPresident Donald Trump signed an execution order to ensure states have sufficient lethal injection drugs, countering opposition from politi...
21 Jan, 2025, 04.02 PM IST
Man who killed brother and 3 others set to be put to death in Indiana's first execution in 15 yearsJoseph Corcoran, convicted of a quadruple murder in 1997, was executed in Indiana. This was the state's first execution in 15 years. Corcor...
18 Dec, 2024, 09.43 AM IST
Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been usedOfficials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a ...
26 Jan, 2024, 11.05 AM IST
Xylazine: US witnesses 'zombie drug' attack across states. Details hereXylazine, the "zombie drug", is gradually spreading throughout the US.
27 Feb, 2023, 05.01 PM IST
Pune hospital employee kills wife by administering lethal drugs; heldThe accused, Swapnil Sawant, wanted to eliminate his wife as he was having an affair with a nurse who was his colleague at the private hosp...
24 Nov, 2022, 10.53 AM IST
Tracy Beatty executed in Texas for 2003 murder of his mother and burrying body in backyardTracy Beatty, 61, was executed by lethal injection in Texas for the murder of his mother and the subsequent burial of her corpse in the bac...
11 Nov, 2022, 12.17 AM IST
Low-cost blood thinning drug may potentially treat, prevent COVID-19: StudyThe initial results from 98 patients, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, indicate that heparin could be a promising...
07 Feb, 2022, 05.21 PM IST
Hit hard by Covid, Indians flood social media urging for ventilator beds, plasmaPeople were posting pictures of relatives, friends and common people in dire need of ventilator beds, oxygen cylinders, plasma and life-sav...
18 Apr, 2021, 01.22 PM IST
Unites States executes Virginia gang killer by lethal injection despite coronavirus infectionCorey Johnson, 52, was the 12th inmate put to death at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, since the Trump administration r...
15 Jan, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on plea against mode of executionThe plea said that Article 21 (Right to Life) of the Constitution also includes the right of a condemned prisoner to have a dignified mode ...
07 Oct, 2017, 12.49 AM IST
Sun Pharma against use of its drug for lethal injection in USAccording to a media report, the Arkansas purchased three drugs, including one of Sun Pharma, which were enough to perform eight executions.
23 Sep, 2015, 06.55 PM IST
New drug may protect against deadly nuclear radiation even after 24 hours of exposureIn a breakthrough, scientists have discovered a drug that may combat the deadly effects of nuclear radiation even after 24 hours of exposur...
23 Aug, 2015, 04.31 PM IST
Two-drug combo pill to treat HIVScientists have developed a new delivery system for a combination of two HIV drugs that may serve as an effective treatment for the deadly ...
01 Sep, 2013, 01.41 PM IST
- Once bitten, Kayem Pharmaceuticals not shy about new pastures
Kayem Pharmaceuticals, which abruptly stopped selling an anesthetic used for executions in the US said it would continue to supply thiopent...
12 Apr, 2011, 01.55 AM IST